Ayamonte · Huelva · Facing Portugal
This place's best argument comes from the European Tour itself: the Links course hosts the second stage of the DP World Tour's Q-School, the school where the tour card is decided. It runs over 6,600 metres along the left bank of the Guadiana, with views to the river mouth and the Algarve. Gentle, easy-walking terrain, but the wind, the enormous bunkers and the undulating greens do the rest. The Old Course, by Juan Catarineu, is exactly the opposite: a flat, parkland-style par 72 of 6,240 metres, among the estuary, the marshes and the palm trees. Narrow fairways with the bunkers placed where they get in the way, and wide, fast, gently sloping greens. It rewards placement, not power. Together they make the most complete day in the province: a genuine links in the morning and a technical parkland in the afternoon, with Ayamonte and the Portuguese border right there to close the day. The resort ranks among the top hundred in continental Europe.
Two opposite courses, the same day. There aren't many places where you can play a windy links in the morning and a positional parkland in the afternoon without moving the car. Here you can, and the contrast teaches more about golf than a week on a single course.
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